You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. – Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. – Samuel Johnson
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981